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New implementations of a sidebar and vertical tab placement have been added to Firefox Nightly builds, from which release Firefox 129 will be formed on August 6, allowing additional screen space to be dedicated to viewing site content on widescreen displays (since April, vertical tabs have been tested in separate larch builds, and are now available in standard Nightly builds). To enable […]
The openSUSE project developers have released the atomically updatable distribution openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0, designed for creating microservices and for use as a base system for virtualization platforms and container isolation. Installation builds are available for x86_64 and ARM64 (Aarch64) architectures, as well as ready system images for virtualization systems and raw images for copying to media.
The non-profit certificate authority Let’s Encrypt, community-controlled and providing certificates free of charge to anyone who wishes, has announced its shift to using the NTP server ntpd-rs, developed in the Rust programming language with a focus on security and stability. The project is distributed under the Apache 2.0 and MIT licenses, fully supports NTP and NTS (Network Time Security) protocols at both client and server levels, and can be used […]
Mozilla has announced experiments to integrate a chatbot into Firefox that utilizes large language models to interact with users in natural language. Testing of the chatbot will begin this week in the nightly builds of Firefox. The chatbot will be embedded in the sidebar and can optionally operate through services such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, HuggingChat, and Le Chat Mistral. In the future […]
Developers of the Fedora project intend to shift atomically updated editions of the distribution by default to the Composefs filesystem. If approved by the FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), which is responsible for the technical aspects of Fedora development, Composefs will begin to be used in Fedora Silverblue (GNOME), Fedora Kinoite (KDE), Fedora CoreOS, Fedora IoT, Fedora Sway Atomic, and Fedora Budgie Atomic builds. The change […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2024-0762) has been discovered in the Phoenix SecureCore UEFI firmware, used in many laptops, PCs, and servers with Intel processors, which allows for code execution at the firmware level with system access. This vulnerability can be exploited after a successful attack on the system to leave a backdoor in the firmware running above the operating system, bypassing OS security mechanisms, and remaining undetectable by programs […]
The release of SKUDONET 7.1 has been announced, which develops a specialized distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux, optimized for deploying traffic balancers and reverse proxies, as well as for creating infrastructure for application delivery. It supports the creation of balancers for HTTP/HTTPS and the implementation of services for distributing arbitrary TCP and UDP traffic across nodes. Management and monitoring of the system are carried out through […]
Red Hat has published the results of a performance evaluation of encrypted communication channels established using the IPsec protocol on modern hardware, comparing the bandwidth of IPsec based on authenticated encryption algorithms AES-GCM and AES-SHA1. The testing was conducted on RHEL 9.4 distribution on a server with two fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (28 cores and 56 logical cores in […]
Amelia 5.8, an alternative console installer for Arch Linux written in Bash and distributed under the GPLv3 license, has been released. Navigation through the installable packages, settings, and installation modes is carried out via a menu system that allows switching between setup stages before the actual installation begins. Both manual and automatic partitioning, the use of Ext4 and Btrfs, and the installation of standard desktop environments are supported […]
The GNU Project has released version 29.4 of the GNU Emacs text editor. The project code is written in C and Lisp and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. GNU Emacs 29.4 is presented as an unplanned emergency release addressing a vulnerability (CVE not assigned). Details about the vulnerability are not disclosed at this time; it is only noted that the execution of arbitrary shell commands is prohibited when entering […]
Mozilla has updated the Common Voice voice data sets, which include pronunciation examples from over 200,000 individuals. The data is released as public domain (CC0). The suggested sets can be used in machine learning systems to build models for speech recognition and synthesis. Compared to the last update, the volume of speech material in the collection increased from 31.1 to 31.8 thousand hours of speech, from […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2024-28397) has been discovered in the Python package Js2Py, which was downloaded 1.2 million times last month, allowing bypassing of sandbox isolation and execution of code in the system when processing specially crafted JavaScript data. The vulnerability can be exploited to attack programs that use Js2Py to execute JavaScript code. A fix is currently available only as a patch. A prototype for testing the attack potential has been prepared […]
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